Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first condition [of free speech] is that the individual have something to say. Literacy is a prerequisite of free speech, and gives it point. Denied education, denied information, suppressed or enslaved, people grow sluggish; their opinions are hardly worth the high privilege of release. Similarly, those who live in terror or in destitution, even though no specific control is placed upon their speech, are as good as gagged. There can be no people's rule unless there is talk... words, ideas in a never-ending stream, from the enduring wisdom of the great and the good to puniest thought...
...Terror In Hong Kong. Men taken prisoner in Hong Kong reported that the invaders raped Chinese, Eurasian and white women, including three British nurses. Afterward the Japs bayoneted and burned the nurses. A group of 30 Maryknoll missionary priests was tied up, marched with British and Canadian soldiers to an execution ground. The soldiers were led around a corner: the priests could hear their screams as they were bayoneted to death. The priests were spared, but were thrown into a garage and left there for three days, still tied and without food or water...
...Bowen's passionate attachment to Bowen's Court, the square, empty, echoing 18th-Century family mansion which "like Flaubert's ideal book about nothing . . . sustains itself on itself by the inner force of its style"; 3) a bloodstained tapestry of Irish history, from Cromwell's terror to the Trouble...
...divisions of quisling Croatian troops, plus enough Italian regulars and Black Shirts to control it. But, as Ante Pavelich soon found out, this was not what some Croats wanted. He dared not go out in the streets without a shield of burly bodyguards. "Communist bands'' became the terror of his troops, and General Draja Mihailovich, whose forces are concentrated in western Croatia, had won thousands of new adherents. What happened last week in Zagreb taught more Croats a lesson: that Serb dominance was to Gestapo dominance as an itch is to a cancer...
...address you in a state of considerable panic and alarm," wrote Editor Harold Ross of The New Yorker to the Governor of Connecticut. "I write in sheer terror," he concluded. In between was a communication having to do with invasion-not by a foreign enemy, but by New Yorkers. Mr. Ross understood that a park might be laid out near his estate outside Stamford, and what he feared was picnickers from Harlem and The Bronx. He was fearfully against it. PM called Mr. Ross undemocratic. The President of the Borough of The Bronx called him "a grandee," a "socalled editor...